Peru and Pizarro the killer (Orlando Sentinel)

They made one another in a clash of blood, conquest and subjugation that can still be sensed today. The Spanish conquest of South and Central America during the 16th century is an almost unmatchable story of human courage and cruelty, resourcefulness and duplicity, profit and exploitation. It has been celebrated and deplored in histories, novels and poems, and to this day –five centuries …

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